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Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in on...

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Art is not what you see but what you make others see

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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Edgar Degas

Artist

Born: 1834-07-19

Died: 1917-09-27

Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), was a French painter, print-maker and sculptor. He was moreover an active organizer of several Impressionist exhibitions, but never painted 'plain air' himself.More